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Loss Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “In losing his past, he lost everything.”

Ivan Turgenev

2. “Like a beetle tied by the leg, I hovered incessantly around the beloved wing; I believe I would have liked to remain there forever... but that was impossible.”

Ivan Turgenev

3. “To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what’s is so painful you can’t sense your powers leaving you. It’s hard for an old man to ensure such blows!”

Ivan Turgenev

4. “I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.”

Ivan Turgenev

5. “When anything goes, it’s women who lose.”

Camille Paglia

6. “A flow’ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying.”

Charles Lamb

7. “When true hearts lie wither’d And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?”

Charles Lamb

8. “The tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.”

Charles Lamb

9. “All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

10. “How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

11. “Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour’d his relics are laid.”

Charles Lamb

12. “I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

13. “Better to be lost for something worthwhile. Instead of getting lost in everything worthless.”

Ankur Warikoo

14. “Strange how we give birth to kids. And then kill their curiosity!”

Ankur Warikoo

15. “Loss is a result. Fear is an input. You don't control your results. You always control your inputs.”

Ankur Warikoo

16. “You know who are devastated by the crypto crash? Those who invested driven by FOMO.”

Ankur Warikoo

17. “If you are scared of losing You have already lost!”

Ankur Warikoo

18. “We hold on to what we have because we don’t know how to get it again.”

Ankur Warikoo

19. “Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then – boom – somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.”

Sam Walton

20. “In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.”

V.S. Naipaul

21. “A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.”

V.S. Naipaul

22. “All landscapes eventually turn to land, the gold of the imagination to the lead of reality.”

V.S. Naipaul

23. “Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.”

Democritus

24. “Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.”

Plutarch

25. “Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Though you are singing somewhere still, I can no longer hear you.”

Leonard Cohen

26. “Every time you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory.”

Leonard Cohen

27. “I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second-hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.”

Leonard Cohen

28. “Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.”

Leonard Cohen

29. “Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.”

Leonard Cohen

30. “There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine.”

Leonard Cohen

31. “My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn’t pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.”

Leonard Cohen

32. “I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don’t make it junk.”

Leonard Cohen

33. “My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.”

Leonard Cohen

34. “I had this child, and it destroyed my family.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

35. “The bullet is followed by the silence of the grave, but a wasted youth is followed by years of grief and agonising memories.”

Anton Chekhov

36. “What we have, we do not treasure, and what’s more we do not even love it.”

Anton Chekhov

37. “Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.”

Anton Chekhov

38. “Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”

Anton Chekhov

39. “If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.”

Chanakya

40. “Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year, it disappears with even the original stock.”

Chanakya

41. “Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.”

Chanakya

42. “Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.”

Daniel J. Boorstin

43. “Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live. There are times when even to live is an act of bravery.”

Seneca